MY
SPORTS INJURY | Sports
Physiotherapy clinic is an established clinic Located in Manchester City
Centre, our Sports Injury Clinic offers high end Manual physical
therapy, soft tissue massage, sports injury rehabilitation and
myo-fascial
active release therapy.
HOW MY SPORTS INJURY CAN IMPROVE PHYSIOTHERAPY BASED OUTCOMES - KNOW
WHAT IT IS ABOUT
Sports
physiotherapy can improve the
performance of athletes through rehabilitation after suffering an injury or by
strengthening muscles and joints that prevent possible reoccurrence of injury.
Athlete
sports physiotherapy develops its activity in three different phases:
MY
Sports Injury & Physiotherapy provides the fundamental framework to excel
athlete sports recovery & performance.

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Postural Correction approach to Rehabilitation of Soft Tissue
Injuries: such as sprains, Joint mis-alignment, muscle tears, overloads,
muscular imbalances etc.
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Rehabilitation Post operation: Through sports physiotherapy,
a rehabilitation plan is designed based on the characteristics of the injury,
the athlete and their particular needs.
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Injury prevention: The analysis of the athlete and their
discipline allows us to detect possible improvements in their physical sports
performance and enhance them through personalised exercises in accordance to
their physiology and performance test indicators.
“The
findings gathered from the studies made, have helped to guide variety of
athletes and coaches concerning the benefits and advantages of sports
physiotherapy , a study revealed that it was more specific to have sports
massage and including this kind of therapy into competition and training” Holly Louisa Davis, Timothy James Ainsley Chico and Samer Alabed (2020) published: Effects of sports
massage on recovery and performance sporting events.

"In order to improve your sports injury you’ve got
to build sustainable habits through gradual progression"
How does physical Manual therapy at My Sports Massages
Injury Clinic in Manchester City Centre prevent future injuries?
Many injuries are caused by
involuntary habits or gestures that damage our body biomechanics and we have not even
noticed it.
..But, Can we injure ourselves just
by doing sports practice?
Sports activities, due to their
physical demands, are one of the factors that most influence when suffering an
injury; but in our day-to-day life, it is true that there are many occasions
when it is easy to damage our body.
For a few years we can already
say that a computer, a laptop or a smartphone are elements that are not lacking
in many jobs, and that they are found in practically every home.
Some out of obligation, and
others for fun, the truth is that we end up spending hours in front of these
devices, and this can take its toll on our body.
Some of the Most Common non-sporting injuries
are:
- Back and neck injuries.
- Carpal tunnel syndrome.
- Repetitive Strain Injuries from the Mouse / keyboard / Laptop

Sports physiotherapy can
find the factors that can lead us to suffer certain injuries and correct them
to ensure good physical condition and improve sports performance.
Is physical Manual therapy job only to improve your
contractures and overloads?
Sports physiotherapy is
responsible for analysing what are the specific needs of each athlete and
individual within their discipline to optimize their physical condition and
prevent injuries or minor discomfort that may affect their performance.
In this sense, physical manual
therapy does much more than relieve contractures and overloads.
Your sports physiotherapist or
/ Sports Injury Therapist in Manchester City Sports Massage
Centre can help you correct postures, optimize movements and strengthen the
muscle areas that the athlete needs to perform as well as possible.
“Hamstring injuries often impact elite
sports practitioners such as professional footballers and have high-rise
reappearances rate. Through a thorough workup and comprehending its risk factors
and how the injury works, physicians and physiotherapist specialists in the
case would be able to make the decision how manage it with the most adequate
and customised treatment approach. Appropriate rehab must tackle muscular
strength, neuromuscular control, physical
manual therapy, flexibility, sports
physiotherapy, eccentric strengthening, lumbopelvic stability and
neuromuscular control. These procedures have displayed to be essential
therapeutic target to get back an athlete’s successful return, with a
significant low risk of reappearance” stated by Gabriel Amorim Ramos, Moises
Cohen, Diego Acosta Astur, Alberto de Castro Pochini, Gustavo Goncalves Arliani
and Benno Ejnisman (2017).
What do you need to do to prevent injuries?
There are rehabilitation and
re-education treatments so that the athlete understands how his body works and
how it needs to work so that his performance is optimal. This involves muscle
power exercises, stretching, movements, and postures. Each element has its
influence on the final result.
According to Bruno T. Saragiotto, Alexandre D. Lopes and Carla Di Pierro (2014)“ The principal factors notified by the
athletes tied in to how often they injure were improper sport technique,
improper nutrition, overtraining and aspects related to athletes’ behaviour.
The principal strategies about injury prevention insights informed by the
participants were, pre and post sporting event sports physiotherapy
assessment, strengthening exercises, nutritional and orientation session
counselling”
What are the most common causes of injuries in
sports?
The most common causes of sports injuries
are: lack of rest, not doing a good warm-up, bad posture for sports,
overexertion and the use of inappropriate material such as footwear, clothing
or protectors, for these reasons it is indispensable to attend to your physio
sports injury or sports injury specialist so you can obtain correct
guidance and recovery.

HOW SPORTS MASSAGE CAN COMPLIMENT SPORTS
PHYSIOTHERAPY TREATMENT
Sports massage is one more
tool used by Sports physiotherapists to complement the treatment of certain
pathologies.
The use of Sports massage
can be very useful to recover, rehabilitate or even prevent and combined with
other techniques it will be the perfect ally for the elite athlete and the
amateur.
This type of massage has purposes
such as preparing and recovering the muscles, through this massage it is
possible to increase sports performance considerably.
What are the main
objectives?
To prevent possible future injuries by improving physical condition.
To maintain proper body function.
To treat muscle-type alterations and pathologies.
THE 5 KEY BENEFITS OF SPORT PHYSIOTHERAPY FOR ELITE
ATHLETES
Whatever sport you play, a physical
therapist will help to improve the toughness and robustness of your body.
Prevents
injuries; at MY SPORTS INJURY CLINIC we offer personalised services
according to the sport you practice. At first, the sports physiotherapy
expert will study your strength, flexibility and joint flexion. We will use
this information to design a routine that will help improve all your physical
aspects. Sessions help reduce your chances of experiencing stress, tension,
torn ligaments, and cramps.

- Improve
the physical strength of the athlete; athletes use their
physical strength while working. Sometimes they must tolerate punches like
boxing, basketball, rugby and football. These activities tighten your muscles.
Your bones, joints, muscles and ligaments will be strengthened, which will
allow them to withstand the high physical stress that sport requires.
- Helps the body relax; after a long day on the field or in
training, athletes have to find their time to relax. Sport Physiotherapy helps
you regain the energy in your body and thus perform efficiently the next day.
- Sports injury treatment and rehabilitation; regardless of the
amount of care and caution you may take when playing your sport, some accidents
can happen. If you have suffered an injury or blow, we will evaluate your case
and carry out a specific treatment for your injury or ailment. The recovery time
for injuries as common as a sprain or dislocation is drastically reduced if
they are treated with physical therapy for at least 30 minutes.
- Improves joint and muscle flexibility; athletes require a
flexible and agile body to practice their sport. For example, swimming,
football and tennis require a good flexibility of the bodies. Thanks to the physiotherapeutic
treatment, we will gain flexibility and you will be guaranteed optimal
performance to continue practicing your sport.

A very common injury sustained by
young athletes and pro-football players is Chondromalacia patellae, in
preparation to reach and facilitate a full recovery, what’s necessary.
What’s the most effective treatment approach to address Chondromalacia
patellar in athletes according to trials outcomes, Conservative vs
non-conservative?
“An in-depth study and a
controlled trial have been carrying through to determine the effective of
chondromalacia patella injury conservative management over one-hundred
successive athletes. 82% of athletes reached a success outcome and 18% of them
needed a surgical management. It should be noted that eight of one-hundred
athletes called for non-conservative treatment. The conclusion was that a
non-surgical management like sports physiotherapy, physical manual therapy is
highly effective in the majority of the cases” Indicated by P J Mayer, W A
Dolan and K E Dehaven (1979).
" Every sport is different, so treatment and
rehabilitation are different too! "
PHYSIOTHERAPY OR SPORTS THERAPY: WHAT'S THE KEY
DIFFERENCE AND WHEN DO I NEED TO SEE ONE? WHAT IS BEST FOR YOU?
The key difference is that sports
therapy focuses on if the athlete has gotten back or maintained the
necessary physical level required for any sporting practice they perform. While,
on the other hand physiotherapy tries to permit that patients feel and
live pain free through their day to day lifestyle.
Their concepts are often
mistaken because they usually overlap on their treatment practices and
approaches based on their medical knowledge and sports backgrounds. Which one
to attend?
If you are having some diseases,
illnesses and respiratory or neurological problems, you better be willing to be
assisted by a sports physiotherapy practitioner. Meanwhile, sports therapy
practitioners can treat physical impairements related to musculoskeletal rehab and seek for
preventing future injuries.
Elite athletes usually look to sports
therapy to prepare their body before every competition to enhance overall sports performance pre-competition or match.

HOW PHYSICAL MANUAL THERAPY CAN IMPROVE SPORTS
RELATED INJURIES
Manual therapy known as a
“hands-on” approach used by physical therapy clinicians, has been
employed to improve sports injuries in a greatly and satisfying way due
to its managements by which may be utilised in several conditions, including
sports related injuries because manual therapy purposes try to bring
about the next effects:
- Modulate
pain.
- Change
muscle function.
- Reduce
soft tissue swelling.
- Induce
relaxation; and many others.
What are the manual therapy techniques used to get
better sports related injuries?
- Stretches (joints,
muscle, neural tissue, fascia)
- Trigger
Point Therapy.
- Active
releases techniques.
- Massages.
- Peripheral Joint Traction.
- Assisted
active and passive range of motion.
- Joint
mobilisation and manipulation.
MY SPORTS INJURY | Sports
Physiotherapy clinic is easily accessible for the array of business people
working in the city centre and also offers corporate partners direct Sports
therapy treatment into businesses and premises in and around Manchester. The reputation
of our clinicians is such that they often treat calling on bands/ teams/ casts
and production crews for the harmonic mix of entertainment & sporting
venues in the city.
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